Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction

Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair.

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A newly repackaged edition of a classic Vargas Llosa novel.

General Fields

  • : 9780571288601
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.317
  • : April 2012
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 26mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 416
  • : Main
  • : Paperback
  • : Mario Vargas Llosa